XMM-Newton Science Analysis System


sas (gui-1.53.1) [xmmsas_20230412_1735-21.0.0]

Selecting a task

The main screen of the SAS GUI has one window that lists all tasks that the SAS can perform. Such a listing may look like:

This is what we call the task browser. The browser shows four columns:

• Name of a task,
• Main group this task belongs to,
• Last time in the history of this session, that this task is performed,
• Short description of what this task will do. A full description can be found in the documentation of that task.

You can navigate through browser by using your mouse or keyboard.

With your mouse, you can scroll to a specific task, using the scrollbar on the right side of this window. If you double-click on a a specific task, you will be presented with a dialog.

Using your keyboard, you can quickly browse through the task browser. Pressing one of the Page Up, Page Down, Home and End keys will scroll you up, down, to the beginning or to the end of the task browser respectively.
Typing the first letters of a task name, will jump downwards to the first occurrence of such a task name. Pressing Enter on your keyboard will launch the task dialog.